Editorial Know Disaster May – June 2022
Dear Readers, Greetings! Floods bring the most recurrent natural calamity. India faces floods almost every year, in varying degrees of…
Children’s Corner
Children are our future. It is, therefore, crucial that they are included in decision-making, designing and implementing policies, plans, and standards, as…
Clumsy Floodplains: Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods
By Thomas Hartmann Adopting an innovative interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how society can manage the use of the floodplains…
The Resilience Machine
Edited By Jim Bohland, Simin Davoudi, Jennifer L. Lawrence Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and different parts of the…
Managing Flood Risk on Saturday-July-30, 2022
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of Know Disasters Magazine will be launched in…
Covid Vaccination for 12-14 Age Group to Begin from March 16: Govt
The Central government will start the Covid vaccination for the 12-14 year age group March 16 onwards, Union Health Minister…
Terminology
Gender Mainstreaming Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned…
Children’s Corner
Shahbaz Showket Grade 11 Government Higher Secondary school Nawakadal, Srinagar,J&K Children are our future. It is, therefore, crucial that they…
7 Killed as Fire Breaks Out in Delhi’s Gokulpuri
Seven people, including three minors and a pregnant woman, died in a massive fire that gutted over 30 shanties in…
University of Madras, Keio University Collaborate to Study Disaster Risk Reduction
The University of Madras and Keio University of Japan have proposed to initiate research collaboration in coastal resilience and disaster…
